The firm is represented by a team of
lawyers that includes Zuckerman Spaeder’s William Taylor and Steven
Salky, a group from Cunningham Levy Muse and Gibson Dunn and Crutcher partner Ted Boutrous.

Though the bank remains anonymous in the litigation, it’s believed to be TD Bank, and is represented by Duane Morris‘ Joe Aronica and Alexander Bono. The committee is represented by Thomas Hungar.

Fusion GPS dropped an initial lawsuit
against the subpoena in November, and negotiated with House
investigators in November to narrow its scope. But, the firm ultimately
disagreed with the committee over 70 documents.

Those documents included bank records
related to transactions between Fusion GPS and 10 law firms. Fusion
argued that those law firms did not contract with the firm on any work
related to Russia or the dossier, on which Fusion GPS worked, and were
therefore not pertinent to the committee’s investigation.

Leon wrote that he could only block
the subpoena if there was “no reasonable possibility” that the materials
would produce information “relevant to the general subject” of the
committee’s investigation. In November, it was revealed that two firms, Perkins Coie and Baker and Hostetler, paid Fusion GPS for research in the 2016 election.

“While the opposition research Fusion
conducted on behalf of its clients may have been political in nature,
Fusion’s commercial relationship with those clients was not, and thus
that relationship does not provide Fusion with some special First
Amendment protection from subpoenas,” Leon wrote."